Being Bad

[icymist]

Some people have problems with Paganism because we didn’t have anybody come down from a mountain with a couple of stone tablets and tell us what being bad really meant. The charge is leveled that we don’t have any morality system. Once that statement is made, it’s an easy jump to thinking we don’t have any morals. But just because we didn’t have somebody write it on rocks doesn’t mean we don’t have a morality system. We are, by and large, a very moral group of people. Of course, the same can be said of most of the people of the world. Pagans usually aren’t any more or less moral than anybody else. But we still don’t have a couple of rocks telling us what’s right and what’s wrong. What we do have is a few guidelines that can help us decide if something is right or wrong, good or bad. For the most part, these guidelines talk about what it means to be good. Very little is centered on being bad.

Probably the most powerful of these guidelines is also one of the most subtle. It’s expressed in a variety of ways but it all comes down to a very simple three-sentence statement:


Everything we do with intent is magic.
Everything is connected.
All magic produces like-consequences for the magician.
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